I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.